Chinese team makes record-breaking advances on ‘kissing number’ using a reinforcement learning system called PackingStar.

Scientists in China have leveraged AI to solve Isaac Newton's kissing number problem in dimensions 25-31, where work had stalled before.

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Our system is remarkable because it’s incredibly simple,” said paper author and physicist David Grier of New York University.

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To figure out how they slither through substances that should, in theory, resist their movement, a team led by Kenta Ishimoto, a mathematical scientist at Kyoto University, investigated the motions of ...

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Two men from the borough are part of the first ever cohort of Fellows of the UK’S Academy for Mathematical Sciences.